Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s CDU, is set to form a coalition after winning the most votes, per exit polls. The ...

It’s hard not to see the political parallels between Cottbus, a city of 100,000 about 75 miles south of Berlin, and Rust Belt ...

Germany's incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said an 'absolute priority' for him will be to distance Europe from the U.S.

Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian ...

He has vowed to prioritize European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition government will have ...

Friedrich Merz’s mainstream Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, ...